Sally Bush -- The Brontë sisters -- Queen Victoria -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin -- Miss Alcott -- George Eliot -- Princess Louise -- Fanny Mendelssohn -- Angelica Kaufmann -- Baroness Burdett-Coutts -- Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth -- The wife of Thomas Carlyle -- The wife of Benedict Arnold -- Adelaide Procter -- Lady Bloomfield -- The mother of Victor Hugo -- Laura Bridgman -- The wife of George Washington in her workroom at Mount Vernon -- Madame de Staël and Napoleon Bonaparte -- The wife of Frederick the Great -- The flight of Eugénie -- Caroline Herschel -- Charlotte Cushman -- Maria Mitchell -- Mrs. Trollope -- Adelaide Phillips -- Two queens; the daughters of James II of England -- An evening with Rachel -- Josephine and Bonaparte -- Lady Morgan -- Maria Theresa -- Lady Franklin -- Madame de Miramion -- Peg O'Neal -- Mrs. L.M. Monmouth, and how she lived on forty dollars a year -- Trial of Jeanne Darc, commonly called Joan of Arc -- Harriet Martineau -- The wife of Lafayette -- Betsy Patterson, otherwise Madame Jerome Bonaparte of Baltimore -- Some ladies of the old school -- Toru Dutt -- George Sand

Book, illustrated cloth binding, stamped in gold and black; frontispiece

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